Whether Quotes

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

Whether people like it or not, my marketing thought is if you keep something in front of people for too long, they get used to it.

The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

In my mind, I never doubted whether I was going to achieve what I wanted to do. I just had to decide what it is I wanted to do.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese.

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.